Cable Continues Lobbying Push on LFA NPRM
Cable interests continue lobbying the FCC's eighth floor to push for changes to local franchise authorities' authority. NCTA, Charter Communications, Comcast and Cox representatives met with aides to Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioners Mike O'Rielly, Jessica Rosenworcel and Brendan Carr…
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about the Further NPRM on this week's agenda, according to a docket 05-311 ex parte posting Friday, and to ask that the NPRM seek further comment on the applicable scope of the proposed rules. Those cable interests have made repeat visits regarding the LFA NPRM (see 1809200010). NCTA in a separate docket posting recapped calls with aides to Pai and O'Rielly and with Media Bureau Chief Michelle Carey at which cable urged that the NPRM seek further comment on the applicability of the proposed rules to state franchising authorities as well as local ones. NCTA also said regulation of non-cable services over franchise cable systems and of facilities and equipment that offer those services is pre-empted by law. It said the NPRM should point to those actions when discussing pre-emption. Thursday, Free State Foundation Senior Fellow Seth Cooper said the draft NPRM correctly recognizes LFA regulation of broadband would run contrary to the "light-touch information service framework" the FCC pointed to in its Communications Act Title II regulatory rollback.